I had time to get seated, to enforce perfect silence, to take out my work, and to commence it amidst the profoundest and best trained hush, ere M. Emanuel entered with his vehement burst of latch and panel, and his deep, redundant bow, prophetic of choler.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It would seem that these giants spent the earlier part of the afternoon in going to and fro, transferring everything from the second and third cylinders—the second in Addlestone Golf Links and the third at Pyrford—to their original pit on Horsell Common.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Some yards of foot-path, accordingly, about Jordan's, and here and there elsewhere, were covered with flat flagstones from the lake-beach, of very irregular shapes and of no great size: the effect produced was that of a very coarse, and soon a very uneven mosaic.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Wedding “Those gondoliers,” said the elderly priest, addressing me in order to begin the conversation, “are very fortunate.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She is the guiding spirit, the executive power that leads the forlorn hope and brings order out of chaos.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The next morrow we rose to watch when the whale should gape: and then looking out, we could sometimes see mountains, sometimes only the skies, and many times islands, for we found that the fish carried himself with great swiftness to every part of the sea.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

[417] William II of Germany seems to echo, perhaps unconsciously, the same doctrine when he claims to be ruling by divine right.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Mr. Wanless assured her, amid the general smile, that English people carried their own laws and customs with them.
— from A Study In Shadows by William John Locke

These were the chief military phenomena in France and Flanders during three years of the great struggle to establish Philip's universal dominion.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

There is a body of names belonging to each gens, so that each person’s name indicates the gens to which he belongs.
— from Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by John Wesley Powell

Ainsworth, in his preface, says, "Tunes for the Psalms I find none set of God: so that ech people is to use the most grave decent and comfortable manner that they know how, according to the general rule.
— from Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

This is of great significance to every present or prospective strawberry grower because the success of any business firm invariably is but a reflection of the success of its customers.
— from Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way by R. M. Kellogg Co.

"Thank God," said the earnest pastor, with quivering lip.
— from Ester Ried by Pansy